1. FUNDAMENTALS OF LEXICOLOGY
Object of Lexicology
Links of Lexicology with Other Aspects of Linguistic
Types of Lexicology
Two Principle Approaches in Linguistic

2. Lexicology
“lexis” - word, phrase
“logos” - science

3. Language Units
Morphemes
Words
Word groups
Phraseological units

4. Aims of Lexicology
Investigates the problems of word-structure and word-formation in Modern English
The semantic structure of English words

5. Aims of Lexicology
Principles of the classification of vocabulary units into various groupings
The laws governing the replenishment of the vocabulary

6. Aims of Lexicology
Studies the relations between various lexical layers of the English vocabulary

7. Aims of Lexicology
The specific laws and regulations that govern development of the vocabulary
The source and growth of the vocabulary and changes it has undergone

8. Lexicology and Other Linguistic Sciences
phonetics
grammar
stylistics
history of the language
social linguistics
typology

9. Types of Lexicology
General Lexicology – general study of words and vocabulary, irrespective of the specific features of any particular language
part of general linguistics

10. Types of Lexicology
Special Lexicology – description of the characteristics peculiarities in the vocabulary of a given language

11. Types of Lexicology
Historical Lexicology – origin of various words, their change and development, linguistic and extra-linguistic factors influencing the structure of words, their meaning and usage

12. Types of Lexicology
Descriptive Lexicology – vocabulary of a given language at a given stage of its development
functions of words, morphological and semantic structures of words

13. Types of Lexicology
Comparative and Contrastive Lexicology – correlation between the languages , correspondences between the vocabulary units of different languages

14. Synchronic (Descriptive) Approach
syn – “together, with”
chronos - “time”
concerned with the language vocabulary as it exists at a given time

15. Diachronic (Historical) Approach
dia – “through”
chronos – “time”
development and changes of the language, evolution of vocabulary units as times goes by